A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes? — Edward Dahlberg Credit Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Cafeteria Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what… — Edward Dahlberg Ambition Copy Share Image
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg Freedom Copy Share Image
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding… — Edward Dahlberg Beast Copy Share Image
“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.” — Edward Dahlberg Criticism Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Great man Copy Share Image
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses,… — Edward Dahlberg Book Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something… — Edward Dahlberg Accidents Copy Share Image
“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.” — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do… — Edward Dahlberg Assuming Copy Share Image
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because… — Edward Dahlberg Becoming Copy Share Image
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them… — Edward Dahlberg Earth Copy Share Image
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. — Edward Dahlberg Affectionate Copy Share Image
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to… — Edward Dahlberg Buttocks Copy Share Image
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. — Edward Dahlberg Achievement Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Book Copy Share Image
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to… — Edward Dahlberg Animal Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Accepting Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Admire Copy Share Image
